If we can sneak a win and Hull & Catalan go down to a defeat then it leaves us in a fantastic position going into the Catalan game. One solitary point off fourth and three points off Catalan for third. In two games time we could actually be one point off third spot after a disastrous start to the season.









Makes you wonder now if we didn't concede the last minute try at Castleford and the last minute penalty at home to saints. We'd could have gone joint third on Monday.

Technically its both.
Fount as in 'Fountain' of knowledge
Font as in 'Vessel' of knowledge.

IIRC both are dervived for the origional latin word 'Fons'.

Before anyone asks no I didn't just google that as I have had this discussion before.

I was wondering when someone would start to talk of 4th and beyond. Hey, at this rate we could win it. We're so good.

Snap back to reality.
We've come back to win the last two games from losing positions - ace. But, you highlight the pts we may have lost had we held on against Cas/Saints. Totally irrelevant. Just like the last two games (they could've gone the other way too). We're a work in progress, and happily going in the right way (at the mo). Looking back at results that could've of (but didn't) go the other way is pointless. Hey, we should'a (could'a) but dint, beat Bradford. Imagine that.

Terrific

Or conversely, if you hadn't spawned 4 points in the last 2 weeks you'd be sat on 13 points, the same as 10th placed salford and a full 9 points off 4th place. Funny old game, aint it

Well said. Too many Hull and rovers fans suddenly get wet pants after a win or two. Neither are good enough to worry the best teams when it really matters

It's on a Monday, moans Sandy. Isn't this a positive? 8 days since the last game and 11 day turnaround to the next one, then. Honestly, this chap's existence is so permeated with niggles and sadness, I'm glad to gift him some derby joy. I may go to the Huddersfield Giants favourite breakfast spot this morning, just to check how many eggs Big Eorl eats.

Yes, with me. Then we concluded that it was nothing to do with fountains or vessels, but with the first printing presses that brought knowledge to the masses for the first time in the fourteenth century. The letter blocks used in the press were called fonts, and became known as the fonts of all knowledge. Fount is the anomoly. Had you forgotten?

I don't think CS was moaning. If anything he will have been responding to a Q posed to him by the HDM reporter. I thought his response was candid and based on experience. Having met him he just gets on with it. Nothing seems to faze him.

Good old psychometric testing.

Good effort, but the wickets not turning this morning Shane. Sandy's whinging days are behind him( until the next defeat at least). Come back on Tuesday morning.

For top class moaning try this:



So basically, a cry about injuries then.

Sandercock's not going to be whining about injuries, is he - not like he's had to cancel training due to lack of available players? Honestly, I despair of you.

As for Tuesday morning, utter nonsense. You really should pay attention to Mike Smith and Easty. 4th.

I don't remember ever having that conversation with you TBH.

But thinking about it (A new line of thinking with regard to the word Fount).
I would say both work.

Fount (Fountain)- Fountain Pen?
Font (Type Font)-Printing press?

So one could argue that one hints to the pen and one hints to the printed word.

Talk about thread drift!!!!!!!! and from a moderator as well. Can't you PM this derailment?

Sandy doesn't know how to moan about injuries, maybe he can take some lessons?

I see your "Mike Smith & Easty" boast and raise you "Tarquin Fuego". So, that's you lot all the way to Old Trafford then.

Surely you remember!

You made the fountain pen bit up, though. The printing press thing is historical fact. You can't just make it "work" by making it up as you go along!

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I've shown optimism for the squad all year in the face of many Rovers fans who have discredited the side. We finally stick a run of games together and I'm meant to adopt the opposite mentality. I believe in the squad and Sandercock and feel comfortable talking up a side that many have wrote off all year.

You mention a could've attitude I adopted with the Saints & Cas games, Surely it's the same could've attitude you mention if roles are reversed. We however won against Warrington and Hull.

Good post easty I'm now starting to believe in the team and foremost sandy it's just took a while for things to happen but he does seem to be the real deal.

I think the problem Sandy had in his early days winning people over, is he is the polar opposite of Justin. He's very intense and not particularly media savvy. But he seems to have faith in his team, and has regulary said, if they play for 80 minutes, they can be a match for any team in the league. Unfortunately it's taken a while to get anywhere near 80 minute performances out of them.

Yep totally agree with the above it can take a while for change to happen and for the better to be honest I'm glad he's chilled out a bit more cos at the beginning it was boring listening to why we was losing, and I'm glad he not a media freak like Morgan was.

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(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) Printing a complete set of type of one style and size Also called (esp US and Canadian) font
[from Old French fonte a founding, casting, from Vulgar Latin funditus (unattested) a casting, from Latin fundere to melt;

So that one is not proven conclusively either way. It's also worth looking up the translation of the writings of St John of Damascus referred to as "the fount of knowledge". Pretty early stuff, that is.

That's going to be a bout God and all that rubbish isn't it so I'll not bother.

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Well you might not be interested Sandra but there are enough references to Agar in here to keep the neighbours happy.

If you believe the traditional "fountain or font of all knowledge" being a metaphor for a gushing fountain or pool of God-given knowledge, then yes.

But I'm now convinced by the fourteenth century version - the little melted down blocks or fonts that were the letters on the early printing presses. These first made reading material accessible to the public and gave them knowledge never before obtainable. A much more down-to-earth and socialist theory, with not a deity in sight.

(Sorry, Darth, this probably does belong on the Chat thread. In my defence I did originally post the question on the first Chat thread which lead to our initial (fairly civilized, for us) conversation that you've forgotten

. Move it if you will.)